The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

pollyanna_26

Nargle you've asked where did all those prople go? I could ask the same question this thread hasn't only been elephants but   proper OS content.'

We used to love starting the day with Monnas Thought For The Day . Sometimes thought provoking often hilarious. There were times there wouldn't be one but she'd be back next day.

Talk here would be crafting ,OS upringings Hester told us of how she had look after herself after leaving school and find work while unable to afford proper food or clothes.

Some of us talked of the Woollen Mills in Yorkshire and Lancashire Cottonv Mills and how eventually most British manufacturing was being moved abroad and poor quality

It may have been Mrs CD who mentioned wool clubs.Her uncle had a sideline providing wool to customers who would repay on a regular basis. My mum and aunties "Put away wool" They would choose the yarn they wanted but what they could afford day and the rest was put in bag with their name on it and put in cubby hole in the wool shop with their name on it.

Monna was busy helping others, baking for various events and wishing she could sort out her bungalow.

There would be a heffalump from time to time but it was usually OS chat.

There weren't as many posters and sometimes the Fence would be on page 2 in the moning and we'd get it back on Page1.

One day Moona posted please don't let this old fence die so we tried our best to keep it going with far fewer posters then the news of a pandemic and a fair number of us either ECV or protecting someone who was.

It's much easier to have a vibrant, helpful .informative friendly thread if most of the crew don't abandon ship.

What made the tougher threads work was the range  of posters with many different life experience but those threads were often closed when someone had a hissy fit.

Out heroine here is our lovely burtha . She and her children abandoned by 3mw without a hint it was coming.She struggled  in a freezing cold wreck of a house but listened to advice and learned. It took a long time before she and her children were warm and safe and come the summer we'll have the bunting out for her Hen Party.

Monnna is still worrying about and visiting David and must be exhausted.

pollyx

Floss

Polly you said it then.

Would. Did. Talked. All past tense.

And personally I don't log on to read long repeating posts about the old days.

MingVase

I'm not claiming to be a victim, I'm not even upset. I just read the three posts from late last night and thought ok that's it, I've had enough. Life is too short.

Florenceem

Floss said:

Polly you said it then.

Would. Did. Talked. All past tense.

And personally I don't log on to read long repeating posts about the old days.

I used to be a regular poster on this thread until someone was nasty to me.

pollyanna_26

Floss said:

Polly you said it then.

Would. Did. Talked. All past tense.

And personally I don't log on to read long repeating posts about the old days.

I was speaking about the current thread Floss. We tried our best to keep the Fence going  with far less posters and topics.You do but some people have no knowledge of history and what got people through tough times in the past.

I wont be bothering you again with the old days.

Talking about people behind their backs is not acceptable to me I will take myself elsewhere  with thanks to Wolfie MrsCD and the other posters who've helped to keep the fence going in difficult times.

Sorry Monna we tried. love to burtha her Frog and the family enjoy your life and have a lovely OS wedding day.

Mar and I will still be friends.

polly

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MrsCD

Ok.....I've read all the posts, and I think its such a shame what's going on right now. Monna is having a hard time with her friend in his last days and all we can do is snipe at each other. Polly and Ming have brightened my days many a time talking absolute rubbish, and so what if it rakes over old ground. They have known each other for years and it is all taken in good fun. Many folks here have had rough times and just need a bit of escape now and then. Burtha has turned her life around and soon we'll be celebrating her marriage to the frog. People we probably will never meet have become friends and I think its time to take a breath and just calm down. 
The garden fence is somewhere we can all be welcome, and just like in RL there will be different views, but please, no more nastiness.

MrsCD

Polly, it wasn't me who had an uncle who put wool away for the wool club, but I do remember shops where they would keep the wool to one side with your name on until you finished what you were making.

MrsCD

We all now have three choices: 
Stay and make the fence what we want it to be, whatever that is...
Leave, and miss out on the company of old friends.
Call in now and again to see what's being discussed, and maybe contribute to the chat.
I'm staying.

MrsCD

Here goes.. proper OS...
How do you dry your washing?

mothernerd

I want to stay and I want Polly and Mar to stay. I came in at some point when the alleged heffalump was already allegedly under the patio or in the freezer. I can follow some of the thread but some references pass me by. But this thread is like stepping into a book of out of the door of the tardis (or the back of the wardrobe) - an alternate universe and for those of us who've spent the last 2 years mostly 'confined to barracks', a safe space where we can have adventures. We have confined lives (mostly due to illness) but we do not let physical limits restrict us - we can go anywhere, do anything, be anything.

I'm currently having to weigh up what I can take up or down stairs on my one and only trip each day. I try to do as much as I can in my room before I go down, do what I can downstairs and when I can't manage any longer/ do any more I come back up. I'm constantly frustrated by things being on the other floor (and things being on the floor as I can't be sure that my feet will go where I want them to). So being able to visit places I've not yet been to (I brought up the poison garden at Alnwick when Burtha was doing her virtual round Britain run and we were all suggesting places to visit along the way and routes that would allow her to visit us all) or reliving memories of people and places prompted by the reminiscences of others is lovely.

I apologise to Mar if she has felt in any way put upon. Polly was the first to rush to defend me when I was viciously attacked in another thread. Sometimes this thread is slightly repetitive but without a variety of inputs (which I'm as guilty of as anyone, not saying anything because not a lot is happening in my life - I'm still in limbo) Polly's done a wonderful job of keep batting the tennis ball back over the fence.

My mother and I used to bicker 'like an old married couple' but we loved each other (very different people and personalities). When she died, my one remaining uncle said this was normal - he and my aunt had been married a long time but argued all the time, particularly about bringing up their two boys. However when they've gone, you can let go of the troubled memories and remember the good bits. I hope Polly and Mar are both here for a long time. As for everyone else, start making positive contributions - be the change you want to see in the thread (with apologies to Ghandi).

Otherwise I'll have to tell you about the travails of my ex-s-i-l who's just come back from a visit to the USA (cut short by several weeks).